Buharry, greetings and thanks for forwarding this piece to us.  It's really
a mouthful and with time and persistence, we shall unearth the mystery of
our lifetime, called HIV/AIDS.  Let's keep educating each other, for it's
the key to solving this human problem.

On a lighter note, how's your family?  I hope all's well and you'll are
enjoying your newest member.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:28:14 +0200
>
>Hi!
>     I promised to post some articles on the AIDS conspiracy theory. Here
>they come. Enjoy.
>
>                                  Buharry.
>____________________________________________________________________
>
>The US Government created the HIV Virus!!
>
>AIDS: a U.S.-made monster?
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>
>PREFACE
>In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret",
>Prof
>J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made
>disease,
>originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick,
>Maryland.
>Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and
>is
>considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
>Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
>column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and
>which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article,
>named
>"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins,"
>is
>lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with
>footnotes.
>The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
>recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at
>some
>bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:
>
>Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
>
>AIDS FACTS
>"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
>(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
>back
>to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
>'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of
>antibodies in
>the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional
>T4-
>cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
>defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under
>other
>circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
>opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.
>
>The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and
>intermittent
>fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
>patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years.
>Occasionally
>a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's
>well-being,
>can be observed.
>
>After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
>Complex)
>sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
>lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at
>which
>point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders
>in
>various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
>which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
>
>This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
>Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means
>tiredness
>in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
>
>The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
>sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles,
>the
>infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
>discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is
>still
>doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken
>against
>it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had
>120,000
>cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will
>have
>died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of
>people
>infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute
>case
>of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
>AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in
>the
>US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the
>most
>optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will
>not
>help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached
>at
>by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and
>the
>Chief of the medical services of the US Army.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it
>is
>clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
>comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they
>mean
>by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
>Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
>proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We
>have
>given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned
>laboratories,
>whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
>connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
>professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
>
>DISCOVERING AIDS
>The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
>DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris
>in
>May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a
>trip
>to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his
>co-workers at
>the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
>virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.
>
>Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
>virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia
>virus,
>HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
>published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and
>Montagnier,
>two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of
>HTLV-1
>and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They
>also
>declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
>these two forms could have evolved into the other.
>
>According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual
>meeting
>of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was
>almost
>entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents
>could
>be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS
>was
>practically the sole topic of discussion.
>
>THE AIDS VIRUS
>The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
>and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the
>most
>similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
>findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
>million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average
>a
>10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984,
>the
>difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%,
>10% in
>1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time
>visna
>viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
>parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not
>known
>in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
>cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."
>
>"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals,
>"Coffin
>hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome,
>which
>encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the
>host
>cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
>behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the
>genomes
>of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables
>them
>to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
>BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system
>biochemically. (emphasis mine)
>
>The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a
>section
>of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That
>length
>corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly
>unstable,
>which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it
>"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the
>likelihood of
>an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
>section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
>visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
>have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
>capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made
>the
>HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
>explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is
>"a
>combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
>MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process
>would
>have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
>replete with disorders."
>
>"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a
>visna
>virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an
>epitope
>capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
>other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible
>for
>the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this
>reason
>we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
>artificial means, through gene manipulation."
>
>"THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV"
>"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
>extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly
>qualified
>personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
>Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
>Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
>aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to
>human
>beings?"
>
>The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
>Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
>confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
>requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
>intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would
>not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient
>would
>not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the
>spring
>of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.
>
>"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.
>
>One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt
>themselves
>to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a
>cure
>for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975.
>A
>year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980
>he
>published his discovery of HTLV.
>
>In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in
>which
>human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
>officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
>biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
>Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
>difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert
>Gallo
>for this purpose, note the Segals."
>
>Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord
>banning
>the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort
>Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick
>Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer
>Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other
>than
>Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
>Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US,
>biological
>agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long
>periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However,
>the
>initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
>patient.
>
>"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus
>was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the
>test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most
>of
>the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is
>relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients
>were
>exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug
>abuse,
>as is often the case in American prisons. 1111
>
>It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among
>men
>and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals.
>They
>go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual
>contact,
>incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive
>infection
>via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners,
>incubation
>periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the
>beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then
>the first cases of full- blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that
>could have been expected."
>
>In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
>"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
>they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the
>findings
>of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
>popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as
>"conspiracy
>theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will
>have
>to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two
>more paragraphs:
>
>"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are
>part of
>a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We
>wish
>to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
>investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
>October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to
>this
>document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
>to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had
>volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
>insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal
>patients
>in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments
>without
>their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past` is not really a thing of the
>past."
>
>"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in
>university
>institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
>Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
>Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary
>authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We
>are
>often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret.
>Now,
>experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
>subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could
>be the Manhattan Project."
>
>
>
>
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